Control Group Ctrl-1 Bugging

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:arrow_forward: GAME INFORMATION

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  • **GAME BUILD: 101.103.2359.0 (#133431) 17001014
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Hello, I just comeback to play AOE2DE days ago, but I’m experiencing a weird situtation with the default control group 1 hotkey (ctrl-1). It is kinda losing the control group randomly. I play AOE2DE for many years, and this never happened before. I am just managing my army in enemy base, but sometimes when I change the view (selecting all buildings specifically) to focus on a build in my base (ex: selecting all stables - ctrl+shift+D in my case), the game selects one of stables as the new control group 1, overriding my previous setup.

So many times I lost units because of this behavior, when I am atacking the enemy by managing my army with ctrl-1, I change the view to my base by selecting some build (TC, Stable, etc) or idle vills, and those builds or vills override the control group, when I press “1” to focus my army in the enemy base, now it is selecting stuffs that I didn’t want.

This happens from nothing. I created games with the AI, trying to reproduce it, but this bug is not easy to reproduce, I would say that I am not even sure if it occurs in this way, but I am pretty sure that there arent another hotkeys undoing my control group… I never changed that in years.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue (Most probably):

  1. Select a relevant set of army and define the Control Group 1 for them using CTRL-1 hotkey;
  2. Micro them in the enemy base;
  3. When using the hotkey for selecting all stables following by doing some knights for example, ramdomly the game assign the “new” CTRL-1 control group for one stable, overriding the previous control group configuration, making you losing the control group configured to your army before;
  4. When you press “1” to focus your army, instea of that, the game will focus for you the stable :frowning:

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
Select the correct control group previous configured

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Sorry, for now I havent image/video, this bug is not easy to notice/reproduce.